Friday, July 31, 2015

Collected my haul ordered from Taobao.com yesterday night.... and 1 of the item is a KO MP16 set! Costs about SGD18.25.. Gotten it mainly because I want to place Buzzsaw landing on Megatron's (Apollyon's) arm, hahahahahahahahahaha....

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Decided to fix up a little more of the new KO G1 Sixshot I bought, and also take some pictures of the various modes...

Here's all my Sixshots... 4 in total... Don't miss out the smallest one standing at the bottom , it is my KO Kabaya Sixshot...

So will show the modes according to Sixshot's 1st apprearance in the G1 cartoon... First up (or 2nd rather), the tank mode... pardon me if I got the modes' names wrong... Opps, sorry, forget to flip up the little canopy (which happen to be the lower jaw of the beast head)...

Beast mode... Hmmm.... looks good...

Amoured carrier mode... or car mode, in short...

Jet mode... the 2nd best mode to me (1st being the robot mode)...

Gun or pistol mode... I watched the cartoon part where Sixshot first transformed into gun mode (held by Cyclonus) and saw the back of the gun has wheels....

... and got this configuration for gun mode while playing around with it (the robot arms are now closer to the barrel)...

And the last 7th mode (exclusive to the Headmaster cartoon series), the Wingwolf mode!!!!! Weird... hahahahaha....

Here's the weird Wingwolf mode top view...

Overall, very satisfied with my new purchase, though now I am very careful in purchasing TFs, as my display cabinets are very very full now... Am thinking of removing the Leader class movie Starscream to make way for KO God Max (if I impulsively decide to buy it one day)...

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Bootleg G1 Sixshot
This is the newest version in China, from the company that makes 1 of the KO version of TFC Hercules, called Jin Bao (金宝). The colours tried to follow the original G1 Sixshot colours, making it a cheap alternate place filler for those who miss out on the Hasbro/Takara reissues. I bought this mainly to replace my lousier KO Sixshot. The materials used is quite good, not those brittle type, and even silver chrome on 1 side of the wing attacher. It is almost similar in quality to my other KO Sixshot in orange and red colours, except that this bootleg has no ratcheting joints. However, it makes up with quite/sufficiently tight enough joints. As with other KOs, some tightening, shaving and tweaking are needed... Costs about $19.65 $20.05 (after re-calculation) ... in SGD...

Back of the box has the instructions cramped into it!!!!!... The "Horsemen"... hahahahaha.....

1 good improvement is that the company puts back these little peg-holes (missing in both versions of my KO Sixshot) in the inside of the legs to hold the 2 big rifles....

... to allow for an alternate configuration for gun mode....

Kabaya Fighbird
Hope they come up with a Granbird to combine with this little fella!!!!! Hahahahaha.... Cost about $17.25, tentatively, as I just wrote to my agent to inform them of the oversize shipping box, to get back the excess shipping fee... Not assembled yet, will do it later or when feel like it...Edit: Cost is approximately $13.40, after my Taobao agent acknowledge of the error...

A nice drawing of Apollyon on the inner box... A bit squashed on the side but doesn't really matter...

And the box splits into 2 to house Apollyon and the accessories... The lower openings have broken seal tapes, hopefully is the seller open to check before sending out, and not a re-furbished version... hahahaha... me a hygiene freak... The boxes also open up at the glued flaps very very easily too... Anyway, don't really care...

Also comes with a remedy pack that consists of a super cute mini screwdriver and 2 replacement sockets for shoulder joints... I will be trying to enhance the existing sockets with super glue methods first, if fail then switch to these 2 new ones...

The "collector's" card is super thick and think it is made of plastic...

A closer look at the tray of accessories... Lots of stuff, probably won't be using.... Like the Vector Sigma key the most... maybe will consider getting Apollyon to hold it when displaying... And I notice the infamous orange cap on the black barrel, which many Apollyon owners seem to have a difficult time getting it off... I pray hard that mine won't...

... and my prayers are answered! The orange cap is not even glued at all, and I can just gently slide it off!!! Lucky....

And here's the tray containing Apollyon... Nice... Oh, the silver barrel also has an orange cap...

... and like the previous one, it is also not glued on !!! ... Many thanks, Apollyon!!! From here onwards, I shall address you as... MEGATRON !!!!

Megatron, time to pose... hahahaha... Joints are quite ok actually, and still has the common shoulder problems but not very serious...

And very lucky to have the Fusion Cannon's LED to work properly! Batteries included! Hahahaha...

Today manage to find some time after my dentist visit to try the transformation... actually it is not too difficult after looking so many Youtube clips... Need to do a bit of shaving and trimming sometimes to perform the transformation step... can be forgiven... hahahahaha... Parts don't really fit perfectly though... but still acceptable...

A back view of the gun mode... Handle is too freaking big!!! Hahahahahahaha...